MEW Article on Designing For and Using O Rings
Alan Johnson 7 | 21/10/2020 11:21:36 |
102 forum posts 16 photos | I have read - some time ago - an article in MEW, or was it ME! Thearticle was about Using O rings, and designing for their use. I have used the on-line search engines, and looked at the MEW published indexes, and I can't find it! Would anyone know where it was published? Thanks in advance. Alan
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Les Jones 1 | 21/10/2020 11:38:02 |
2225 forum posts 153 photos | There was an article in issue 156 (Autumn 2009) of MEW on page 15 about using "O" rings. I don't know if that is the one you are looking for. Les. |
Clive Brown 1 | 21/10/2020 11:40:04 |
627 forum posts 26 photos | Can't answer your specific question but "Model Engineer's Handbook" by Tubal Cain has a useful section on designing for O-rings, plus lots of other information on a wide range of topics of general use to the model engineer. Might be worth buying. |
Windy | 21/10/2020 12:02:10 |
![]() 839 forum posts 166 photos | I used the Model Engineeer Handbook for the O rings on my flash steamer and found Tubal Cain sizes work well. As now on with a large flash steamer have found on the web plenty of O ring dimension articles to help my project. On the model doing a water pressure test it was about four thousand pounds on my generator a pump 0.25" silicone O ring extruded maybe not designed for that pressure or too mch pump piston clearance. You try to learn through cock ups not to do it again. |
Alan Johnson 7 | 21/10/2020 12:30:58 |
102 forum posts 16 photos | Thanks Les, you are on the mark! That was the article! Thanks also to Clive and Windy as I didn't know about that source of information. I shall get a copy and learn. Thanks again, Alan.
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